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Dr. Carl Martin Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Office: Miller Hall, Room 27
Phone: 978-665-4774
Email: cmarti37@fsc.edu

Office Hours: Fall 2009 ~ Mon & Wed 2:00-3:15

Education:

Ph. D., Tufts University (2005)

Master of Letters, University of Aberdeen (1999)

B.A., University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (1995)

Courses Taught:

  • Writing I & II
  • British Literature 1: Beowulf to Milton
  • World Literature I
  • Literature of the Middle Ages

Research Interests:

Old & Middle English Literatures; Renaissance; Bible; Literary Theory; Marxism

Current Projects:

Essays on the topic of food and class in Malory’s Morte Darthur and on war and aristocracy in Marlowe’s Edward II.

Representative Publications:

“An Economy of Pain in The Awntyrs off Arthure,” Modern Philology (forthcoming)

“The Cipher of Chivalry: Violence as Courtly Play in the World of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” The Chaucer Review 43 (2009)

“‘Bitraised through False Folk’: Criseyde, the Siege, & the Threat of Treason,” The Chaucer Review (2003)

Professional Affiliations:

Medieval Academy of America; Modern Language Association